Let’s undo lunch

Here’s how to break that fast-food habit and put some healthy helpings in Your morning bagel is but a distant memory. The 10 a.m. granola bar has been reduced to a few crumbs stuck to your desktop. Time to bring on the midday meal – and the daily dilemma of what to eat. Lunchtime is no longer the leisurely three-martini repast of yesteryear. As likely as not, you now have just enough time to race out, grab some expensive and calorie-laden fast food or deli offering, then dash back to your desk. NELVIN CEPEDA and TARA STONE / Union-Tribune photo illustration Bringing a lunch, such as Bursting Barley Salad, to work saves money and lets you eat more healthfully. From an economic and health standpoint, this lunch-on-the-fly approach can set a body back upward of $60 a week and perhaps as many as 50 grams of fat and 700 calories a... [read full story]